The paradox of innovation is ...

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
 Piero Scaruffi

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Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.
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This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
 Henri Bergson

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